Overview
- Description
- Contains an inoculation certificate issued to Gert Selig in Kobe, Japan, and photographic prints of the Selig family in Frankfurt, Germany. Siegfried and Hildegard Selig fled Germany with their ten year old son Gert in 1940, via the Tans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gene S. Selig
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Certificates. Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
- Copyright Holder
- Dr. Gene S. Selig
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Kobe (Japan) Frankfurt am Main (Germany).
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Received by members of the Selig family during the time period of the Holocaust in Germany and Japan. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Gene Selig.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:21
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Also in Gene Selig family collection
The collection consists of a Haggadah, a certificate, and photographs relating to the experiences of Siegfried and Hildegard Selig and their ten year old son Gert (Gene) during the Holocaust when they fled Frankfurt, Germany, and traveled on the trans-Siberian railway through China and Kobe, Japan, arriving in the United States in late 1940.
Date: 1940
Siegfried Selig document
Document
Consists of a document issued to Siegfried Selig (donor's father), April 1940, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Prayer book
Object
Haggadah used by Gert Selig as a young boy. Ten year old Gert and his parents Siegfried and Hildegard fled Frankfurt, Germany, in 1940 because of the increasing persecution of Jews by the Nazi government. They traveled via the Trans Siberian railway through China to Kobe, Japan, and reached the United States late that year.
